HONEYMOON CABIN
No Rent for Newlyweds

Can you imagine honeymooning in Montana's Garnet Range, listening to coyotes howling at the moon and wind murmuring in the pines? How would you like to then stay in your rustic honeymoon cabin rent-free? For a few years beginning in 1917, Frank Davey (of Davey's Mercantile) offered a miner's cabin to newlyweds until they could build their own dwelling or until the next wedding bells rang --whichever came first.

The town's many married couples helped shape the family atmosphere that distinguished Garnet from typical mining boomtowns. Here, you'd find more family picnics, fishing, quilting bees and berry harvesting than gunfights and barroom brawls.

Saving The Family Story
A 1978 Young Adult Conservation Corps crew stabilized this cabin, thus preserving another piece of Garnet's unlikely history as a mining town that served as a decent place to get married and raise a family.

Other Stories
Gold In The Garnets
Chinese Presence
Town of Garnet Named in 1897
Family Living in a Gold Mining Town?
Riches Fade
Saving Garnet Ghost Town
Kelly's Saloon
J. K. Wells Hotel
Davey's General Store
Ole's Tavern
Dahl Cabin
Blacksmith Shop
Garnet School
Jail
Miners Union Hall
Adams House
Warren Park
Highlights from interview with Mary Jane Morin, June 11, 1999
Letter from Hills Bros. Coffee to Mrs. Adams
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Copyright © 2000, Garnet Preservation Association and Bureau of Land Management of Montana